When you’re on the timeline, if you’re zoomed out too far out and you use the Arrow keys to move one frame at a time, you can’t. You’ll move multiple frames. If you’re zoomed in too far and you use the Arrow keys to move one frame at a time, you can’t. You’ll have to tap the key multiple times just to move one frame. And then there is that "sweet spot" where you can move one frame at a time using the Arrow keys.

Now this may seem like a stupid question, but consider this: One frame—1/30 of a second—is the smallest increment one can edit. Just like film, you can’t edit in fractions of a frame. So that being the case, why doesn’t Vegas allow you to simply move, be it forward or backward, one frame at a time regardless of how far you’re zoomed in or out on the timeline?

Does this grow out of the basis of Vegas having once been an audio product? Audio has no frames, so you can edit in increments below 1/30 of a second.

If that’s true, could there not be a setting of some sort to allow the editor to switch between audio and video settings when moving through the timeline?